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Riz Ortolani

Riz Ortolani (born March 25, 1926, Pesaro, Italy; died 2014), was an Italian film composer. Ortolani is best remembered for More. Ortolani's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition and David di Donatello for Best Original Song.

Riz Ortolani’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Fire Tiger, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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Riz Ortolani’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Strategist

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

What Riz’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on R (9) and closes on Z (8). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Riz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Aquamarine, Red Coral, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Hibiscus

Sunlit yellow · Crimson · Scarlet

The record

What sets Riz apart

Elton John (1947) and Aretha Franklin (1942) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Riz, according to the stars

Core essence

Riz leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Riz is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

The vibe

Underneath, Riz needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Riz needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.

How Riz wants to be loved

Riz wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Riz be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Riz creates

How Riz makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. Riz creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.

Instinct

Instinct: Riz is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. Riz is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of Riz leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Riz goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.

Computed from Riz's birth date. Working below.

Where Riz sits

Six lines

Riz’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
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You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
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You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
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You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
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You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
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You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Riz Ortolani

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pesaro on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Riz’s birth-night reference starAlkaphrahblue-white · Ursa MajorAlkaphrah, in Ursa Major. A blue-white star, 86.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Alkaphrah →The warmest lightArcturuswarm orange · BoötesArcturus, in Boötes. A warm orange star, 22.2° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Arcturus →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Pesaro that night

Computed for 43.91°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pesaro was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 86.4° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 105 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 43.9°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −46.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Pesaro on any night.

Sun 27° below the horizon, Moon up and 89% lit at waxing gibbous.

How unusual Riz's chart is

Chart pattern score

34 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Saturn · No Earth planets

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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If you only read one paragraph

Aries Sun

First through every door.

Riz Ortolani's Sun was in Aries for the whole of March 25, 1926, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Fire Tiger

Leads by moving.

Riz Ortolani was born on March 25, 1926, which falls in a Fire Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 1

Independent to the core.

Riz Ortolani's birth date, March 25, 1926, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in Riz’s chart

Riz’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Saturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 0.1° orbMoon faces off with Venus · Opposition, 0.3° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.2° orbVenus faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.7° orbMoon fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 2.1° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.4° orbMoon faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 2.6° orbVenus fuses with Jupiter · Conjunction, 2.9° orbSun in Aries · 4°03′☉4°Moon in Leo · 20°20′☽20°Mercury in Aries · 13°48′ · retrograde☿℞13°Venus in Aquarius · 20°40′♀20°Mars in Aquarius · 1°38′♂1°Jupiter in Aquarius · 17°47′♃17°Saturn in Scorpio · 25°46′ · retrograde♄℞25°Uranus in Pisces · 25°55′♅25°Neptune in Leo · 22°24′ · retrograde♆℞22°Pluto in Cancer · 12°35′ · retrograde♇℞12°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMoonoppositionVenus0.1° to 5.9° orb

    Riz’s feelings pull against their affections from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.

  • stableMoonconjunctionNeptune0.1° to 8.0° orb

    Riz’s feelings and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus0.1° to 0.2° orb

    Riz’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto1.0° to 1.4° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionNeptune1.4° to 2.1° orb

  • stableSunsextileMars2.3° to 2.6° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.6° to 3.1° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune3.4° orb

  • stableMercurysextileJupiter3.7° to 4.3° orb

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune4.5° to 4.7° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn4.7° to 5.5° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.0° to 11.3° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed6 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.

Riz’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 26°26′ (moves 0.06° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Leo 12°55′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosCapricorn 11°50′ (moves 0.46° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 11°40′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 21°35′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Eros opposition Pluto 0.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Neptune 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Mercury 0.9°
  • Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.9°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.9°
  • Eros square Mercury 2.0°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 2.1°

Riz’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune5 pts

    disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Riz’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
  • Jupiter biquintile Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.3°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.6°
  • Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.8°

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From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign

Riz’s cards

Computed from March 25, 1926. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Sun

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Strategist

Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Water.

Year

丙

yang Fire

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

卯

Rabbit

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Riz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q288217 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Indeciso42 at the Italian Wikipedia project., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Riz Ortolani at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Riz Ortolani.

Quick answers about Riz Ortolani’s chart

What zodiac sign was Riz Ortolani?
Riz Ortolani was an Aries: born March 25, 1926, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What was Riz Ortolani's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 25, 1926 birth.
What was Riz Ortolani's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What was Riz Ortolani's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 26°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where was Riz Ortolani's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Riz Ortolani's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 1 major aspect). Neptune is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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